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Matthew Coleman was supposed to go on a camping trip with his wife and their two young children last weekend. But evil was in his midst (he said) and threatened to bring about the end of the world, he told investigators. He had to do something.
Coleman loaded his two children a 2-year-old son and a 10-month-old daughter into a camper van. From his home in Santa Barbara, Calif., investigators say Coleman drove south. Coleman took his children some 250 miles to Rosarito, a resort city on the Pacific coast in Mexico, just south of the U.S. border. Then, he shot each of them in the chest with a spearfishing gun, the agent said. On Wednesday, federal authorities charged Coleman, 40, with the foreign murder of U.S. nationals.
Coleman confessed to killing his children. Coleman said he had been enlightened by QAnon and the Illuminati. He had received visions and signs revealing his wife possessed serpent DNA, which she passed on to their children, according to the affidavit. By killing them, he allegedly said,
he was saving the world from monsters. He knew it was wrong, but it was the only course of action that would save the world.
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2021/08/12/QAnon-follower-father-allegedly-kills-kids-son-daughter-spear-gun-Santa-Barbara-California-Matthew-Coleman-FBI-arrest-Rosarito-Illuminati-conspiracy/stories/202108120110
Carlitos Brigante
(26,512 posts)Bluethroughu
(5,204 posts)Sickness beyond sick.
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)I don't buy it though. I think it's cold blooded murder.
hlthe2b
(102,509 posts)But, cases like this sorely test my resolve.
It certainly does not sadden me that knowledge of him as a child-killer will necessitate he spend much of his sentence in solitary confinement--for his own protection.
niyad
(113,860 posts)GemDigger
(4,305 posts)If he lives or dies as long as he is removed from society, permanently. And I don't give a crap how he is removed.
MuseRider
(34,136 posts)Lately there have been some hard tests to keep on the path but so far still 100% against the DP.
Personally I think the DP is too good for people like this. When you do or plan something that heinous you should have to live with that forever. At some point you would think that even the worst of them would feel some remorse even if only for their self imposed lack of freedom.
Deuxcents
(16,441 posts)How could he do this? My god..